Sold outIn short · Tomatin (Highland), 9 years.
“This one was wonderfully aromatic and dominated by coastal characteristics up front: big notes of crab sticks, rock pools, pink sea salt and pickling brine, with further…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 11.60 is a single cask of Tomatin, in the Highland region, 9 years old, bottled at 59%. Every Society bottle numbered 11.x is from Tomatin.
Specs, price and tasting-note extract from the SMWS. Full notes on smws.com.
High on the moor south of Inverness, where drovers are said to have bought whisky from a local still as early as the sixteenth century, Tomatin was founded in 1897 and by the 1970s had grown into Scotland's largest malt distillery. Most of its spirit still goes into blends, though the soft, sweet, fruity single malt is ever easier to find. Japanese-owned since 1986. Takara Shuzo's.